Shoe-cleaning apparatus.



1 P'ATBNTBDAUG'-1'1, 1908. y A Mmmm n v 1 -sHoB CLEANING APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION FILED DEC.10, 1907.

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' NITED SHOE-CLE ANING APPARATUS.

Application led eceiubei' 1.0, 1907. Serial No. 405,854.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jos ai HERZOG, a citizen of Austria, residing at the town of l'nion, Hudson county, State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful improvements in Shoe-Cleaning Apparatus, -of which the following is a speciucfition.

',lliis invention relates to an appiiriitusdesigned to be placed near the. entrance of a house, hell or room, and adopted to etl'ectively remove the soil from the sole, sides and .to i o'f a shoe.

l.ln the accompanying drawingvliigure lis a side elevation of my improved shoe'cleiining .a paratus; Fig. 2 a front elevation thereof; l* g. 3 a longitudinal section on line 3--3, `Fig. 2; Fig- 4 a cross section on line -l-4,

. Fig. 3; Fig.' 5 a similar section on line .fi-5,

Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 a plan.

A. pair of parallel side plates 10, are connected at intervals by a series of fixed upwardly-directed brushes 11, arranged in a common ,horizontal plane and adapted to clean the sole of a shoe. Between brushes 11 are fitte-d a number of sera-pers V12 which are sslnghtly beneath the tops of' the brushes, so

as to engage the sole when the foot is lowered.

lA'dravver 13 guided in grooves 14 of side plates 10, beneath brushes 11 and serzipers 12, reeeies the soil which is free to fall into the drawer through the interstiees between the brushes.

f Above brushes 11,-side plates 10 are provided with bristles 15 to constitute a pair of facing upright brushes for eleai'iing the sides of tlieslioe. The bristles of these brushes with the exception of the front row, (Fig. 2) nre reduced in length from the top downwards, (F ig. 5), so as to conform to the coni0 tour of the shoe.

is provided a vertically movable concave cross-head 16 having downwardly project-ing bristles 11 to constitute a. top brush. Crosshead`\16 is provided with end tlanges 1S,-

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lplates 10.

Back of the bottoni and side brushes, there.

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as to engage the tip of the solo and is guided in bottoni notches of sideplutes 10. Brush 2' is normally suspended somewhat. higher than brushes 11, and its upwardlydirected bristles ure stepped, (Fig. 3), so that as the foot is advanced. brush 21 will be gradually depressed to the level of brushes 11. Rods '21) are encompassed. by coiled springs '23 interposed between flanges 1S of cross-head 16 and an abutment Z4 of side 20 are engaged b v threaded caps 25 that bear upon Ihuiges 1S :uid permit the tension of springs l'to be adjusted. As the footis ed, vaiiced, it will depress sliding brush 21, and the latter will, by rods 20 and caps 25, draw cross-heed 16 down, so that the bristles 17 will be firmly forced against the top of the shoe. This engagement is maintained as long :is brush 21 is heid in its lowered position bv the foot. As soon es the latter is withdrawn, cross-head 16 will be raised by springs 23, ready for the next. operation.

It will he seen that in my apparatus the brushes are adapted to' snugly embrace the shoes, so that the latter may be quickly and effectively cleaned.

I claim:

1. A shoe cleaning apparatus, comprising a parir of side pluies, a vertically movable bot tom brush, rods projecting upwardl therefrom,

The upper threaded ends of rods.

a verticaliy movable top brus l.V

having perforations for the reception oft-lie i rods, caps on the rods that engage the top brush, :ind springs interposed between the side plates and the top brush, substantially as spccilied.

2. A shoe cleaning apparatus comprising a fixed bottom brush, a movable bottom brush,

:i movable top brush, means` for connecting the movable bottom i; ish to the top brush, und means for norniay-sustaining the movable bottoni brush above the iixed bot-tom' ubstuntinlly es spceiiied.

.\cw York city, (Mannih day olf-December,

JOSEF HERZOG.

brush,

Signed by me :it liattang) N. Y., this 1907.

'itnesscs:

.nu TINE Hianzoo, Mrs. G. kaum-zar. 

